David Jennings wrote:

>>You don't get a whiff of that from Divine MSN and Dane's comments? Maybe its just my take on those remarks in the context of Alice's piece and those remarks. But, I just doubt that an Anglo-Saxon writer saying the same things would be offered a one-way trip to a Muslim country.>>

I hereby offer to contribute $100 towards the purchase of a one way ticket to Saudi Arabia for any "multi-culturalist" of Anglo-Saxon or Irish or Scottish origin. His / her departure from these shores will raise the average "wisdom quotient" of the Australian populace.

Or perhaps it would be better to say it would reduce the average "foolishness quotient.

Well stevenlmeyer,

...here is the problem you appear to have, and I do not, with this issue. The white Australia policy supported the culture of the host country, Australia: White Anglo Saxon European. Almost all posters on this thread complain of the total lack of harmony caused by the reforming of the white Australia policy, and its replacement with “multiculturalism”. This is “entirely” a question of race, get on board! If that all sounds like racism then “yep” that is exactly where multiculturalism is headed (If not already there)!

...There is a long history attached to the “white Australia Policy” which pointed to its workability and success. IMO, Australia has urgent need to return to some semblance of the old order of white Australia policy, and quickly; for the sake of peace and harmony in the racially fractured society Australia has become, through multiculturalism

Enough of this immigration, multi-culturalism bashing.

We the CEOs and political elite of Australia have NEVER had a TOOL so useful for our purposes and so devastating to the rights, freedoms, increasingly expensive services and truth-in-media of the working population. We will NEVER give up this divine TOOL that reflects our genetic superiority with such distinction.

In one brush stroke we have been able to flood the country with soulless firstworld aspirationists who would sell their mothers to get on the right side of OUR fence and put down all this NONSENSE of democratic rights and EQUALITY without EVER casting the blame on we the RICH of this great rapidly BUILDING NATION.

To all the whingers:

You have been outsmarted, polluted, globally warmed, carbonised, overcharged and neglected because you are weak, stupid insignificant and destined for elimination by our induced unnatural competition.

Get used to the concept, iPhone in some nice multicultural take-away, fatten up, crawl back in your Facebook holes and get hooked on one of our excellent assortment of industrialised SCAMS or our pre-programmed tricle-up Stock Market.

B.H.P. Forteskewer,
CEO and Cheif Executive,
'Billion Slave Population For Australia' Corporation.

...Seik fookin-Heil to that one KAEP!...Brilliant.

david,

You forgot to tell us how good multiculturalism is because we now get to eat food from around the world.

Why would anyone want modern western civilisation when we could have multiculturalism and its foods from around the world?

Must be racism.

You should apply for an ARC grant for some research. Sure you will a couple of hundred thousand.

I didn't think much of the article, and agree that its primary concern appears to be with Islamophobia, rather than with the difficulties being experienced with multiculturalism more generally. Nonetheless these are both serious issues, and worthy of serious consideration.

I also largely agree with Stevenlmeyer's comments.

I don't think Oz started becoming multicultural until after the White Australia policy was abolished - prior to which immigration was almost exclusively from EU countries, with which our largely UK derived populace would have had quite a degree of knowledge and association. MC rather began when the door was thrown open to asian immigrants, and the MC spruik was really a mechanism to smoothen their acceptance within our singularly homogeneous society - and I think they have largely settled in well, as have the EU immigrants before them.

We've had spruik of assimilation and of integration - but what in fact is multiculturalism in the current context? Something quite different I fear. Assimilation is a dirty word, and integration little better and just as elusive in practice.

Perhaps the biggest challenge has come from the accelerated rate of immigration, as much as from the kaleidescope of new and very different cultures involved. We have felt threatened, and have not been given time for either of us to become acclimatised to the changes thrust upon us, as the stream continues unabated.

Not least of the spate of most recent arrivals have been the followers of Islam, presenting not only a very different faith, complete with wide variations, but also a multitude of ethnicities. When combined with the war on terror, 9/11, Bali, Iraq and Afghanistan, it is not unreasonable for others to have reservations about these new "Australians". MC really has its work cut out.

We are creatures of habit, wary of change, and have had an abundance of change thrown at us. We need time, and we need to see some "acclimatisation" from our new arrivals. If we see too much of old habits and contrary behaviour persisting, there is destined to be a "crunch". Pollies should please take note.